Thanks for your comment!

Firstly, who would actually be willing to do this? I haven't heard of any volunteers.
I've put out the code and data, but have yet to see anyone volunteer to run it.

Even if such someone did appear, I see no reason why'd they prefer to run this site over running their own. The latter being less constrained and doesn't carry any burdens of conforming to what AT does.

I suspect people think that if I handed over control of AT to someone else, the website would continue as is. This simply isn't the case.
I see the analogy of "handing over keys" being used, but it's nothing like that. A more apt analogy would be like handing over the car to someone in the 1700s - they wouldn't have a clue over how to drive it.

In short, handing over the site to someone simply doesn't make sense. They wouldn't be able to run it (without spending a lot of time learning how it all works), and it's a commitment that few (if any) would be willing to undertake.

I'm not the admin but I will ask you: Would you hand your keys and car over to someone you really don't know while you retain all legal liabilities for it? Plus he uses his own coding that he said would be problems for others to maintain.
There is already someone running a clone but they are coding it themself while using some of the data from here.
It's starting to look pretty good and getting closer to what this site did. I'm already using it for the torrent/mag links like I did here.
I'm not sure how long it will last since it's not easy or cheap to run a site like this.

"I also don't intend to hand over control of AT to someone else" - would be nice to hear why this is. That said, I and many others deeply appreciate you open sourcing the codebase and making so much of this available for archival's sake, which will hopefully aid others in setting something similar up in the future.

I mostly use this site as a way to download subs & fonts from releases without downloading the much-larger video files themselves. I don't know of any other replacement for that functionality, sadly.

just found out about this website about last year, thank u for ur service

This has been a great site since day one. And even without any new updates It still has a well spring of information and working links. If at all possible, let it stay like it is now. AT is easier to navigate than Nyaa is.

Hopefully another site like Animetosho will start up after enough sites have been lost and it becomes too costly to continue going after Anime sites. We've seen this happen a couple times before. The cut down a bunch of sites then stop until there's enough of them that its cost effective again shut Anime websites down again.  Its always about money. They set a budget figure out how many websites they can take down within the budget. track down the which sites have servers in countries they can go into and perform raids. Send threat letters of intent. The preform raids on servers of websites who don't comply. Run out of money and go home until the next time.

THANK YOU ANIMETOSHO FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR ANIME FANS. YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

So Lupin's the last ever episode here.
This place was GREAT for comparing uploads via screenshots and metadata. When torrents were unavailable due to an ISP blocking it, the direct downloads would come in clutch. This place was ALSO awesome for separately downloading the subs and fonts of uploads. The place conveniently had sections for each episode (if I go to an upload and click it's "Episode X" at the top) and even recemtly (last year?) I've noticed that it now has sections for each uploader.

Thank you for everything, Anime Tosho. o7

As someone who ran an Anime sharing site (animeshare) back in the early 2000s using a napster type server. I  know how difficult a decision it was to slowly shut things down. I myself kept the domain names registered as I didn't want them to be linked to anything malicious. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

I still don't understand why they have to "borrow" Anime Tosho name. They could just literally pick any name but no I'm gonna copy this site with worse services (for now). No offense.

As long as they have good opsec, it's probably not a big deal as long as they correctly mix their cryptocurrency and xyz owner did mention they don't make much money to be able to afford running the site out of pocket.
My main complaints so far:
1. whitelist based on groups, will miss obscure releases, this is probably the worst part here, as I used AT more for obscure releases that are poorly seeded than not
2. no torrent archive yet, no nyaa cache yet, I hope they do this over time
3. no nzb yet, likely they'll fix this
4. some people want font attachment archiving and they lack this for now

1 is a big pain point here, 3 might be in the future if it's not added soon, as DDL links die soon and it's best to fall back to usenet once that happens.
2 is very good for the community as a safeguard and they're not doing this yet which is a worry
4 is useful for subbers, but is also needed for proper rendering if you want to playback stuff correctly with another video

I also wonder if anyone that grabbed AT's dump will try to run a clone based on the existing code too.

Sorry, blind, https://github.com/animetosho/animetos.../zstd-dict

Thank you for the dumps. Is there a possibility of getting the ZSTD dictionaries used in FileInfoCompressor?

One TB! Well, I know for a fact I'm not at all interested in the pictures and whatnot, but I am unfortunately a datahoarder, so I'll be seeding this at least until I'm at a positive ratio.

20% downloaded. Praise be the seeds

Thanks for the NZB.  And thanks greatly for all you've done.  Gonna miss you.

Thank you. I'll download it again. It was ultimately reactor's idea though.

Running qBit on Whonix is a much safer.  Go the vitrualbox route if you're not up for qubes.

I guess the question you need to answer is why you attempt to torrent over TOR because according to that github page, it's not meant for that.

The goal is torrent right? then that service is not the answer. If the goal is to "anonymize" you during swarm then yes it is a "virtual" private network. Just not the convenient ones.

wtf? Seems you didn't understand it. Speed will depend on many things. But to say its like VPN ...

I watched the video, it's just VPN with extra steps and the speed is not fast. if that's what you're interested.

Correction: Darknet similar to Lokinet and Tor.

I2P is not VPN. It is a Darknet called Lokinet similar to Tor through which you can anonymously torrent. I2PD software acts as a virtual router for qBittorrent. Some videos on I2P: https://www.youtube.com/@MentalOutlaw/...?query=i2p

Exactly, the way they run the site just doesn't sit right with me. I think 15 years of Anime Tosho is already more than enough for me. Go back to torrents again, xd.

You can check here, hope it helps - https://animetosho.org/about/shutdown2

Free vpn for torrents is a no-no. trust me on this.

Anyone tried I2P on qBittorrent LT20 version to torrent anonymously without requiring to buy expensive VPN? Is it good? Safe?

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

You install i2pd and then enable the I2P option in qBittorrent.

I haven't seen any ads and I blocked yandex from running. I'm not worried about the donation part since that makes them the target, not me. I just turn on my VPN if I'm worried about a site.

Edit: I haven't grabbed anything from there since they don't cover the groups I'm after. I just grab from NYAA, nBT etc what I'm after for now.
I miss the one-stop shopping like I had here.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've posted the database dump to Usenet and added the NZB link on the data page.

I've added a note at the top of the database export page to mention it's not being updated. The database export in the final dump contains all data, not just a subset that the exports had, though it's in SQL format instead of tab-delimited.

Hope your lookup tool works out for you!

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thx for the informative comment.
that's really a shame.
maybe nothing can truly replace AT.

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No?

Deselecting files means it won't be downloaded.

I like everything about that site except the donation part. The site also had ads and yandex.ru script running. I'm gonna pass this one. Thanks for the effort.

Arigatou!

This would be neat. I wonder what server is seeding the torrent and if that's the same as the upload server for Usenet. Admin would have to rename everything though.

Thank you for your service. Thanks for keeping this website alive for all this time. :)
Wishing you all the best in the future!

NZB Finder (https://nzbfinder.ws) has always indexed Anime Tosho uploads for the past 10 years and will also ingest the dump to cover any gaps.

The torrent is fully seeded elsewhere—at this point, there's nearly 50 completed and seeding, but I would expect the majority to evaporate over the next few days to weeks, myself included (probably once I hit a ratio of 2). Due to the sheer dataset size, it took over 30 hours for a second seed to be completed—it wasn't me, but I was probably fifth or sixth.

Given that the database dump is functionally key to use the other parts, it would be good to have that split out and/or uploaded to Usenet. Could uploading the database-dump.7z to Usenet be AT's final 'hurrah' (and perhaps the other datasets, such as NZB's)? Also, the 'dbexport' page on the storage server appears to have frozen a day prior to the final export.

For my own purposes, I aim to turn the dataset into a reverse-searchable hash-to-filename lookup tool, to verify the original filename and other lineage data for those files renamed in my setup (if I didn't rebuild the corresponding MKV to fix subtitles), and to help with future deduplication efforts.

Are there alternatives to direct download?